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Chicago examiner vol vii no 129.-.-a m thursday may 20 1909 16 pages price one cent %â„¢" d ** <Â£**"â€¢ 30 cents per month i 1,000 bribe george s andres as star wit ness swears labor boss covered the money with a blotter as they left ro^om blow threatens state technicality is raised if court rules out evidence of widespread blackmail con fining prosecution to single case : defense will score /^ wayman grows angry * says klicka is afraid ax amazing story of alleged ex tortion of money from a busi ness firm by martin b skin ny i madden fred a pouchot tad m j boyle on trial for conspiracy was told yesterday on the stand in judge mcsurely's court by george s andres chief witness for the prose cution he swore that he paid madden 1,000 in ten 100 bills as settlement money for railing off a strike at the joseph klicka factory 964 south cal ifornia avenue in november 1908 the witness told of many confer ences he had with madden and the two other defendants and declared that he finally induced madden to ac cept the bribe of 1,000 after 500 and 750 had in turn been offered to | ttnk"latior czar and spurned by him room in saloon used the money andres testified was paid to madden in a small room in gilbert & powers saloon 119 south clark street about 8 o'clock on the evening of november 19 1908 i counted out ten 100 bills to madden and said there's the mon ey '" declared andres madden said i never took any money from you and i'm too smart to be caught by that trick " he told me to throw it on the floor under the table on the desk anywl^re and that perhaps some body would pick it up i then threw it upon the desk madden covered it with a blotter we then went from the small room into the barroom and had a drink after that i left madden in the saloon when was the strike called off asked mr way-man the strikers returned to work the rery next day andres responded such was a plain recital of the alleged payment to madden it created a pro found sensation among the spectators in rhe court room a severe cross-examination of audres by attorney james t brady for tho^lefense failed to weaken the testimony of the witness who stood the ordeal without con tradieting anything lie had said on direct examination klicka has poor memory the testimony of andres offset the poor showing made by emil klicka president of the joseph klicka company who was on the witness stand at the morning ses sion of court the witness who was re hed upon by the state to supply some of the most important links in the chain of evidence to support the case of the prose cution developed a very poor memory his answers given with reluctance so nettled state's attorney avayman that he practically accused klicka of being intimi dated or t least an onwilling w'itness one of klicka's answers in reference to offers of money made by him to the de fendant boyle was considered a severe blow to the prosecution and it elicited a loud and merry laugh from madden this answer of mr klicka was as fol io ws i was the first to mention the subject of money to mr boyle i told him i would be willing to pay the union men for the loss of their time if the strike were called off boyle did not say that money was wanted i then told him that i would be willing to give 0o to settle the strike " state's attorney angry jumping to ms feet state's attorney wayman angrily exclaimed you have had a bad memory when answering my questions xow mr kicka umber up a little and get your memory to deerim girls snub rajah he offered to marry both indian prince's advances curt ly declined by heiresses military uncle two young Chicago girls heiresses to many millions have refused a real live rajah these two Chicago girls have declined to become ranees they hare declined to be come the consorts of an east indian prince with goodness knows how many wives al ready ! the young Chicago women are the misses marion and barbara deering daughters of charles deering chairman of the board of directors of the international harvester company the deering girls both of them very pretty are at^present on a globe trotting tour with an indulgent uncle blessed with an abundance of this world's goods the good fairy uncle is captain herbert s whipple u s a retired the party s>f three left Chicago last september siani china india japan are a few of the coun tries that already have been visited by these industrious tourists \ meet rajah m hills of india but the most exciting adventure of the whole trip came m one of the hill towns of india one of the towns of which kip ling sings picturesque and squalid here lived the rajah whose many names and titles are being kept secret by the deering family captain whipple as an ex-army officer travels well supplied with letters of in troduction and the members of his party have heen everywhere received into the highest court circles m the countries they have visited an official visit was paid to the rich youug rajah the deering girls and their good fairy uncle were received m state the rajah was bedecked with diamonds and otlier precious stojies hundreds of servants and retainers flanked the throne on which the prince was seated the Chicago heiresses were charmingly gowned they were striking exemplifica tions of the modern young american wom an the young itajah was struck by the appearance of his guests he received them kindly and seemed loath to have them depart later m the day he sent an emissary to captain whipple rajah offers to wed both * his most gracious majesty the rajab is very desirous of marrying the two young women whom your excellency las the honor to escort announced the emissary with a low bow he would make them his wives and would load them with presents and what is more his majesty he rajah would adopt your own honorable self m order that you might remain near the ladies tell your rajah answered captain whipple that a great big no - is the an swer of the young women tell him that they are perfectly satisfied with their present condition and as for presents and jewels tell him that each one of the young women has moner enough to buy dp his whole dinky little nriuciuality good day the misses deering are expected home next month they will not stay long m Chicago for the deerings like many other Chicago families of wealth are preparing to shake the dust of tie city from their feet for all time and to uve id new york heiresses of Chicago millionaire ( agricultural implement manufacturer who rejected offer of marriage from indian rajah and type of eastern po tentate miss marion is shown at the top of the picture miss barbara m the middle and a typical indian native state ruler at the bottom corrigan broke loses race track edward corrigan master of haw thorne and probably the most picturesque figure m the history of the american turf is broke hawthorne race track his most cherished possession has passed from him the old man who has fought his way into more trouble than usually comes to the lot of any mortal man left Chicago a few days ago with 2,000 m his pocket this money the practical gift of an old friend and busi ness associate represents about all that is left of the once great corrigan fortune corrigan broken m spirit after all of these years of fighting and broken m for tune is m lexington ky at the bedside of his dying wife the corrigan race tracks the corrigan horses once famed on both sides of the atlantic the great corrigan stock farm m kentucky the corrigan power that made him feared wherever men race horses the corrigan millions all of these have passed away m the latter days of the life of the turfman corrigan is norv over seventy years old yesterday there was placed on record m the recorder's office of cook county a deed by which edward corrigan and his wife winifred w corrigan both of ken tucky quitclaimed to former alderman tom carey their equities m a three quarter interest m the hawthorne race track property for 26,000 as a matter of fact all that corrigan actually received for the property was a paltry 2,000 the foreman brothers banking com pany held a note signed by ed corrigan and indorsed by i'om carey it was for 24,000 and was due may 24 corrigan could not meet the note his fortune had been dissipated but he found time tot write tb bis old friend carey tom i'm broke and can't pay that note that you are on - ' is about what he said i haven't anything left except my inter est m hawthorne take up my note for me when it is due and i'll deed you haw thorne it's tough but it is the best that i can do â€¢ and carey wrote back all right ed i'll give you 2g.000 and that'll be>?2.ooo to the good for you in addition to a mortgage for 86,000 on the property held by a s trade the lawyer carey holds a second mortgage of 40.0(10 on hawthorne there is 160 acres m the hawthorne tract and carey said last night that he considered it worth 1,100 an acre kichard fitzgerald vice president of the Chicago junction railway company is the owner of the other one quarter interest patten tells all about his corner " wheat king m speech ex plains why prices are high and will remain so world's crop very short prospects for the coming year are poor m all wheat raising countries at a meeting of the evanston hospital association held on monday evening at the avenue house evanston james a patten announced that he would donate to the association either a nurse's dormi tory or home with the stipulation that the members furnish the building site president frank m elliot in making this announcement yesterday stated that plans would be started at once for a forty-room dormitory to cost between 40,000 and 30 000 it is thought that it was through the influence of mrs patten who is known as the hospital angel that the gift was made in an address of over an honr before the flour men's club m the Chicago room at the great northern hotel last night james a patten gave reasons for believing that the price of wheat instead of drop ping will go higher and higher mr patten's speech was extremely pessi mistic and he gave a most gloomy fore cast of crops mined by droughts and blight he said the present unprecedented conditions obtained m europe and m south america and that the only way to save the wheat produced m the united states and canada for home consumption was by cornering the market . he started out by referring to a recent statement of james 7 hill to the effect that prices were bound to go higher this is always so when the consump tion has rapidly overtaken the production said he a year ago the supply of spring wheat ias so nearly exhausted that one of chicago's millers was forced to buy bread wheat m minnesota for 1.33 f o b Chicago that's higher than it is here to day larger crop is necessary the crop last year was three weeks earlier m baryeatq vvhijo carried the mill ers past the period of high prices xi fi it not been for thai the same comiiiions would then have obtained as exist to-ila.v tl.e new crop however will have to last that much longer unless it slnmld happen that this year's crop is also earlier than â€¢ uisuai which is unlikely considering its present condition owing to the increase m population and consequent increase m consumption which is about 15,000,060 more bushels each year this year's crop will have to be larger than ever before to come anywhere near supplying the demand last year the wheat was cut down just before harvest m kansas by blight and red rust in the northwest it was cut down m the same manner the yield was cut down m the spring wheat states of the northwest very heavily severe frosts m the canadian provinces m august cut down the yield 25 per cent or more there similar conditions prevailed all over the world in the argentine republic the crop was way below the normal india was forced to import wheat last march from australia conditions led to higher prices these conditions m foreigu countries as well as m america led me to believe that if we didn't put the price above the export basis we would run short here farmers m a large portion of the coun try are sowing less wheat and going m more for diversified crops for the protec tion of the soil this is especially true m the spring wheat states they quit seeding spring wheat when they found that they could get 25 an acre for barley and certain other grains against 12 or 14 for wheat and therefore aban doned the wheat proposition especially is this true m minnesota south dakota-end western kansas this year's crop i regard as far short of what it ought to be owing to a severe drought m the soft winter wheat states the acreage will be materially reduced because the soil cannot be gotten into condition for seeding and a large portion of what was seeded is m a weak condition sickly and consumptive appearing owing to la"ck of moisture a neck ago when passing through the wheat belt of kansas i noticed that grow ing wheat stood but three or four inches high and had a bad color it looked yellow and dry this is a difficult disease to cure the state of texas had the fiercest drought of its history and will likely raise only 4.000,000 bushels of wheat compared with 12,000,000 or 14.000,000 bushels last year the crops of europe to-day are short indicating a yield that is less than for last year in germany especially the crops are m bad condition braemhall's cable reports confirm this condition almost every morning world prospects dreary while the yield last year iv italy was many bushels less than au average crop the probability is that it will raise less this year than last france complains of ' drought as also does russia and the bal kau region where the crop has already i suffered from cold and backward weather ] the minister of the argentine republic i who has been m Chicago for a month ,< carlos vallejo whose wife is a Chicago l woman told me to-day that the drought . now existing there is similar to the one â– we had m the united states last fall and is preventing the seeding of wheat which is six weeks backward now owing to the lack of rain these conditions enable me to predict that high prices for wheat will prevail all over the world for a year to come and that red winter wheat . the soft wheat will sell as high m america then as it is selling to-day i cannot dwell too strongly on the law of supply and demand and the theory that the production of wheat m the united states has not kept pace with the increase m population and i want to suggest that he trade each year will have to realize this condition iv its future dealings the wheat lands are being cropped to death and are not being psed like they used to be changes must come or we will suffer the logical result mr patten was introduced to the club by president john t l.enfesfcy who said that it was mr patten's first public ut terance on the wheat market since the so-called corner after the meeting when mr patten was being congratulated upon his explanation for his famous wheat corner by a member of the club he said i am like a physi cian i note the symptoms and then pre scribe the cure alderman whose firm gets big dock grants liner fast in ice 300 persons in death trap vessel which tries to assist also caught wreck of both feared m storm st john's newfoundland may 19 the allan liner mongolian liverpool to st johns and halifax made cape race yesterday and being informed that there was open water to st johns tried to make ibis port she struck a field of ice at noon to-day when about two miles off the harbor and in trying to force her way m became tightly jammed when with'.r a mile of the harbor mouth where she still remains a powerful steamer fitted out to contend with ice floes went out to as sist and to take off mail and passengers but also became jammed when only a quarter of a mile from the harbor a strong northeasterly wind is pressing the ice closer and tighter outlook for bad weather makes the position of both steam ers extremely dangerous the mongolian hrfs more than 300 passen gers who m the event of her being driven ashore will have to take to the ice floes to gain the land parties are holding them seleves m readiness to render help along the shore city wins in grade suit 2,000,000 to be claimed from rail roads if jnilge's decision stands claims amounting to more than 51i.000 000 may be collected from railroads en tering Chicago if a decision yesterday by judge john gibbons m the circuit court is sustained the suit was by the city against the panhandle line for reimburse ment for damages paid the property own ers on account of changes m grade of street approaches when street grades were changed property owners sued and collected from the city more than 2,000 000 on damage claims these dating back to 18s0 the city m turn brought sine against the railroads and iv the suit against the Chicago & northwestern llail road the united states supreme court de cided m favor of the road suits were then begun m different form and the road held the claims were outlawed by time but the court refused to admit this mrs Taft in band row question of extra pay for playing on speedway stirs capital washington d c may 19 whether the marine band is entitled to extra pay when it plays on mrs taft's speedway in stead of at the white house is a question that will have to be settled by the legal department for the administration ac cording to instructions and custom of the marine corps the marine baud was to play twice at the white house and once at the capitol each week president Taft has issued an order that instead of playing at the white house the marine band shall play at speedway functions and once at the capitol the band considers itself entitled to pay since it is taken off its regulation duty at the white house 1,000,000 river dockage rights voted to concern incorporated by foreman company by alderman i once transfers valuable i the i james combination gets 10 streets in heart i of the lumber districti company after sell 1 to being i 8.000 1 lake council leader says he has no cash invested in it i declares only i as lawyers did i know the transfer i another concern i Â« back of the 18,000,000 lake front dock grab has been dis closed a series of corporate deals through which the city has been mulcted out of riparian rights valued at more i than 1,000,000 the fortunate corporation that was voted thi pc ! cial privileges by the city council however is asked to pay but 1 491.78 annually for its valuable concessions ! the favored corporation is the Chicago lighterage company ' and the chief incorporator of the concern is alderman mifcrn xr 1 foreman the other two of the original three incorporators joi b the company are john w beckwith mr foreman law partner , and john f grossman another member of the alderman's firm these riparian rights consist of exclusive use by trie lighter - age company of the river ends of ten streets m the heart of the 1 lumber and factory districts once secured they immediately be came a part of the comprehensive scheme of the j â€¢ \ pugh â€¢ interests to secure control of the lake front and the river traffic \ the river concessions at once were transferred by the light erage company to the pugh terminal and warehouse company of which mr pugh is the head it is this pugh concern that 13 promoting the entire dock plan now under fire of the city officials get ten dock sites from city the appearance of the pugh terminal and warehouse com j pany as the final recipient of the river rights according to the opponents of the scheme plainly indicates that the grants then a secured from the city council were but an incident m a compre m hensive scheme for getting possession of the lake front and the river traffic as well jh with ten dock sites secured from the city the Chicago dock 1 company's piers to be constructed at the mouth of the river would ; be fed with business drawn from the big factory and lumber districts ; along the river the heart of the industrialdistrict thus would be : tapped by the company's boats the connection between the lighterage concern the pugh ter j \ minal concern and the Chicago dock company is so close that the 1 l manipulations were apparent to the investigators as soon as the i 1 incorporation papers of the lighterage company were examined * the head of the pugh terminal and warehouse company is james a pugh the moving spirit m the lake front dock grab his company has leased all of the lake front holdings of the chi cago dock arid canal company it was the latter company that secured the secret federal permit issued by the war department last february under which it is hoped to build the three great piers at the mouth of the Chicago river mr pugh's corporation has been given this permit along with the other holdings of the dock company a marked similarity is seen by the members of the aldermanic investigating committee m the granting of both permits each was secured by another corporation and then turned over to the pugh interests each was secured m n unostentatious manner and at tracted no attention until the gigantic dock scheme finally was dis covered by alderman'foell and by him made the subject of a thor ough investigation by the city council -- kÂ«f'w *- lighterage company dissolves after the special privileges had been transferredâ€”sold â€¢ â– f the members of the fortunate corporation asserted â€” the lighrtratre company was dissolved it having servtd its purpose the Chicago lighterage company to-day does not exist along with this development was the fact that tht Chicago railways company apparently satisfied that the dock steal will go through regardless of city council opposition ha begun con struction of tracks on Illinois street to the proposer site i l " the docks 0 - the special permit for the tracks it was learned veste lay was granted by the city council six months ago or before the public hearing on the claims of the dock company this ac - taken by many of those opposing the dock grab to mean there was some sort of unofficial approval given to the plan b 1 i links in great dock scheme july 19,1907â€”chicago lighter age company incorporated by attorney milton j foreman with 50,000 capital july 1908 ordinance passed by city council giving the company riparian rights to ten city streets m heart of factory â€¢ and lumbering districts feb 26 1909â€”united states war department grants secret permit to Chicago dock & canal co of which james a pugh was one of the promot ers to build and operate three piers at mouth of Chicago river march 24,1909â€”chicago light erage company dissolved after transferring its dock conces sions to pfl&h terminal and warehouse company estimated value of the ri parian rights 1,000,000 compensation paid by com pany annually 491.48 contfnued on 2d page 2d column h weather forecast ft t^k Chicago and vicinity partiy j a Â£<? cloudy thursday and friday not l j a much change m temperature ; moder !Â£? are you going to give yd\ir help vacations ? if so you wjll doubtless need some temporary help the examiner employ ment 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Chicago examiner vol vii no 129.-.-a m thursday may 20 1909 16 pages price one cent %â„¢" d ** f three left Chicago last september siani china india japan are a few of the coun tries that already have been visited by these industrious tourists \ meet rajah m hills of india but the most exciting adventure of the whole trip came m one of the hill towns of india one of the towns of which kip ling sings picturesque and squalid here lived the rajah whose many names and titles are being kept secret by the deering family captain whipple as an ex-army officer travels well supplied with letters of in troduction and the members of his party have heen everywhere received into the highest court circles m the countries they have visited an official visit was paid to the rich youug rajah the deering girls and their good fairy uncle were received m state the rajah was bedecked with diamonds and otlier precious stojies hundreds of servants and retainers flanked the throne on which the prince was seated the Chicago heiresses were charmingly gowned they were striking exemplifica tions of the modern young american wom an the young itajah was struck by the appearance of his guests he received them kindly and seemed loath to have them depart later m the day he sent an emissary to captain whipple rajah offers to wed both * his most gracious majesty the rajab is very desirous of marrying the two young women whom your excellency las the honor to escort announced the emissary with a low bow he would make them his wives and would load them with presents and what is more his majesty he rajah would adopt your own honorable self m order that you might remain near the ladies tell your rajah answered captain whipple that a great big no - is the an swer of the young women tell him that they are perfectly satisfied with their present condition and as for presents and jewels tell him that each one of the young women has moner enough to buy dp his whole dinky little nriuciuality good day the misses deering are expected home next month they will not stay long m Chicago for the deerings like many other Chicago families of wealth are preparing to shake the dust of tie city from their feet for all time and to uve id new york heiresses of Chicago millionaire ( agricultural implement manufacturer who rejected offer of marriage from indian rajah and type of eastern po tentate miss marion is shown at the top of the picture miss barbara m the middle and a typical indian native state ruler at the bottom corrigan broke loses race track edward corrigan master of haw thorne and probably the most picturesque figure m the history of the american turf is broke hawthorne race track his most cherished possession has passed from him the old man who has fought his way into more trouble than usually comes to the lot of any mortal man left Chicago a few days ago with 2,000 m his pocket this money the practical gift of an old friend and busi ness associate represents about all that is left of the once great corrigan fortune corrigan broken m spirit after all of these years of fighting and broken m for tune is m lexington ky at the bedside of his dying wife the corrigan race tracks the corrigan horses once famed on both sides of the atlantic the great corrigan stock farm m kentucky the corrigan power that made him feared wherever men race horses the corrigan millions all of these have passed away m the latter days of the life of the turfman corrigan is norv over seventy years old yesterday there was placed on record m the recorder's office of cook county a deed by which edward corrigan and his wife winifred w corrigan both of ken tucky quitclaimed to former alderman tom carey their equities m a three quarter interest m the hawthorne race track property for 26,000 as a matter of fact all that corrigan actually received for the property was a paltry 2,000 the foreman brothers banking com pany held a note signed by ed corrigan and indorsed by i'om carey it was for 24,000 and was due may 24 corrigan could not meet the note his fortune had been dissipated but he found time tot write tb bis old friend carey tom i'm broke and can't pay that note that you are on - ' is about what he said i haven't anything left except my inter est m hawthorne take up my note for me when it is due and i'll deed you haw thorne it's tough but it is the best that i can do â€¢ and carey wrote back all right ed i'll give you 2g.000 and that'll be>?2.ooo to the good for you in addition to a mortgage for 86,000 on the property held by a s trade the lawyer carey holds a second mortgage of 40.0(10 on hawthorne there is 160 acres m the hawthorne tract and carey said last night that he considered it worth 1,100 an acre kichard fitzgerald vice president of the Chicago junction railway company is the owner of the other one quarter interest patten tells all about his corner " wheat king m speech ex plains why prices are high and will remain so world's crop very short prospects for the coming year are poor m all wheat raising countries at a meeting of the evanston hospital association held on monday evening at the avenue house evanston james a patten announced that he would donate to the association either a nurse's dormi tory or home with the stipulation that the members furnish the building site president frank m elliot in making this announcement yesterday stated that plans would be started at once for a forty-room dormitory to cost between 40,000 and 30 000 it is thought that it was through the influence of mrs patten who is known as the hospital angel that the gift was made in an address of over an honr before the flour men's club m the Chicago room at the great northern hotel last night james a patten gave reasons for believing that the price of wheat instead of drop ping will go higher and higher mr patten's speech was extremely pessi mistic and he gave a most gloomy fore cast of crops mined by droughts and blight he said the present unprecedented conditions obtained m europe and m south america and that the only way to save the wheat produced m the united states and canada for home consumption was by cornering the market . he started out by referring to a recent statement of james 7 hill to the effect that prices were bound to go higher this is always so when the consump tion has rapidly overtaken the production said he a year ago the supply of spring wheat ias so nearly exhausted that one of chicago's millers was forced to buy bread wheat m minnesota for 1.33 f o b Chicago that's higher than it is here to day larger crop is necessary the crop last year was three weeks earlier m baryeatq vvhijo carried the mill ers past the period of high prices xi fi it not been for thai the same comiiiions would then have obtained as exist to-ila.v tl.e new crop however will have to last that much longer unless it slnmld happen that this year's crop is also earlier than â€¢ uisuai which is unlikely considering its present condition owing to the increase m population and consequent increase m consumption which is about 15,000,060 more bushels each year this year's crop will have to be larger than ever before to come anywhere near supplying the demand last year the wheat was cut down just before harvest m kansas by blight and red rust in the northwest it was cut down m the same manner the yield was cut down m the spring wheat states of the northwest very heavily severe frosts m the canadian provinces m august cut down the yield 25 per cent or more there similar conditions prevailed all over the world in the argentine republic the crop was way below the normal india was forced to import wheat last march from australia conditions led to higher prices these conditions m foreigu countries as well as m america led me to believe that if we didn't put the price above the export basis we would run short here farmers m a large portion of the coun try are sowing less wheat and going m more for diversified crops for the protec tion of the soil this is especially true m the spring wheat states they quit seeding spring wheat when they found that they could get 25 an acre for barley and certain other grains against 12 or 14 for wheat and therefore aban doned the wheat proposition especially is this true m minnesota south dakota-end western kansas this year's crop i regard as far short of what it ought to be owing to a severe drought m the soft winter wheat states the acreage will be materially reduced because the soil cannot be gotten into condition for seeding and a large portion of what was seeded is m a weak condition sickly and consumptive appearing owing to la"ck of moisture a neck ago when passing through the wheat belt of kansas i noticed that grow ing wheat stood but three or four inches high and had a bad color it looked yellow and dry this is a difficult disease to cure the state of texas had the fiercest drought of its history and will likely raise only 4.000,000 bushels of wheat compared with 12,000,000 or 14.000,000 bushels last year the crops of europe to-day are short indicating a yield that is less than for last year in germany especially the crops are m bad condition braemhall's cable reports confirm this condition almost every morning world prospects dreary while the yield last year iv italy was many bushels less than au average crop the probability is that it will raise less this year than last france complains of ' drought as also does russia and the bal kau region where the crop has already i suffered from cold and backward weather ] the minister of the argentine republic i who has been m Chicago for a month ,< carlos vallejo whose wife is a Chicago l woman told me to-day that the drought . now existing there is similar to the one â– we had m the united states last fall and is preventing the seeding of wheat which is six weeks backward now owing to the lack of rain these conditions enable me to predict that high prices for wheat will prevail all over the world for a year to come and that red winter wheat . the soft wheat will sell as high m america then as it is selling to-day i cannot dwell too strongly on the law of supply and demand and the theory that the production of wheat m the united states has not kept pace with the increase m population and i want to suggest that he trade each year will have to realize this condition iv its future dealings the wheat lands are being cropped to death and are not being psed like they used to be changes must come or we will suffer the logical result mr patten was introduced to the club by president john t l.enfesfcy who said that it was mr patten's first public ut terance on the wheat market since the so-called corner after the meeting when mr patten was being congratulated upon his explanation for his famous wheat corner by a member of the club he said i am like a physi cian i note the symptoms and then pre scribe the cure alderman whose firm gets big dock grants liner fast in ice 300 persons in death trap vessel which tries to assist also caught wreck of both feared m storm st john's newfoundland may 19 the allan liner mongolian liverpool to st johns and halifax made cape race yesterday and being informed that there was open water to st johns tried to make ibis port she struck a field of ice at noon to-day when about two miles off the harbor and in trying to force her way m became tightly jammed when with'.r a mile of the harbor mouth where she still remains a powerful steamer fitted out to contend with ice floes went out to as sist and to take off mail and passengers but also became jammed when only a quarter of a mile from the harbor a strong northeasterly wind is pressing the ice closer and tighter outlook for bad weather makes the position of both steam ers extremely dangerous the mongolian hrfs more than 300 passen gers who m the event of her being driven ashore will have to take to the ice floes to gain the land parties are holding them seleves m readiness to render help along the shore city wins in grade suit 2,000,000 to be claimed from rail roads if jnilge's decision stands claims amounting to more than 51i.000 000 may be collected from railroads en tering Chicago if a decision yesterday by judge john gibbons m the circuit court is sustained the suit was by the city against the panhandle line for reimburse ment for damages paid the property own ers on account of changes m grade of street approaches when street grades were changed property owners sued and collected from the city more than 2,000 000 on damage claims these dating back to 18s0 the city m turn brought sine against the railroads and iv the suit against the Chicago & northwestern llail road the united states supreme court de cided m favor of the road suits were then begun m different form and the road held the claims were outlawed by time but the court refused to admit this mrs Taft in band row question of extra pay for playing on speedway stirs capital washington d c may 19 whether the marine band is entitled to extra pay when it plays on mrs taft's speedway in stead of at the white house is a question that will have to be settled by the legal department for the administration ac cording to instructions and custom of the marine corps the marine baud was to play twice at the white house and once at the capitol each week president Taft has issued an order that instead of playing at the white house the marine band shall play at speedway functions and once at the capitol the band considers itself entitled to pay since it is taken off its regulation duty at the white house 1,000,000 river dockage rights voted to concern incorporated by foreman company by alderman i once transfers valuable i the i james combination gets 10 streets in heart i of the lumber districti company after sell 1 to being i 8.000 1 lake council leader says he has no cash invested in it i declares only i as lawyers did i know the transfer i another concern i Â« back of the 18,000,000 lake front dock grab has been dis closed a series of corporate deals through which the city has been mulcted out of riparian rights valued at more i than 1,000,000 the fortunate corporation that was voted thi pc ! cial privileges by the city council however is asked to pay but 1 491.78 annually for its valuable concessions ! the favored corporation is the Chicago lighterage company ' and the chief incorporator of the concern is alderman mifcrn xr 1 foreman the other two of the original three incorporators joi b the company are john w beckwith mr foreman law partner , and john f grossman another member of the alderman's firm these riparian rights consist of exclusive use by trie lighter - age company of the river ends of ten streets m the heart of the 1 lumber and factory districts once secured they immediately be came a part of the comprehensive scheme of the j â€¢ \ pugh â€¢ interests to secure control of the lake front and the river traffic \ the river concessions at once were transferred by the light erage company to the pugh terminal and warehouse company of which mr pugh is the head it is this pugh concern that 13 promoting the entire dock plan now under fire of the city officials get ten dock sites from city the appearance of the pugh terminal and warehouse com j pany as the final recipient of the river rights according to the opponents of the scheme plainly indicates that the grants then a secured from the city council were but an incident m a compre m hensive scheme for getting possession of the lake front and the river traffic as well jh with ten dock sites secured from the city the Chicago dock 1 company's piers to be constructed at the mouth of the river would ; be fed with business drawn from the big factory and lumber districts ; along the river the heart of the industrialdistrict thus would be : tapped by the company's boats the connection between the lighterage concern the pugh ter j \ minal concern and the Chicago dock company is so close that the 1 l manipulations were apparent to the investigators as soon as the i 1 incorporation papers of the lighterage company were examined * the head of the pugh terminal and warehouse company is james a pugh the moving spirit m the lake front dock grab his company has leased all of the lake front holdings of the chi cago dock arid canal company it was the latter company that secured the secret federal permit issued by the war department last february under which it is hoped to build the three great piers at the mouth of the Chicago river mr pugh's corporation has been given this permit along with the other holdings of the dock company a marked similarity is seen by the members of the aldermanic investigating committee m the granting of both permits each was secured by another corporation and then turned over to the pugh interests each was secured m n unostentatious manner and at tracted no attention until the gigantic dock scheme finally was dis covered by alderman'foell and by him made the subject of a thor ough investigation by the city council -- kÂ«f'w *- lighterage company dissolves after the special privileges had been transferredâ€”sold â€¢ â– f the members of the fortunate corporation asserted â€” the lighrtratre company was dissolved it having servtd its purpose the Chicago lighterage company to-day does not exist along with this development was the fact that tht Chicago railways company apparently satisfied that the dock steal will go through regardless of city council opposition ha begun con struction of tracks on Illinois street to the proposer site i l " the docks 0 - the special permit for the tracks it was learned veste lay was granted by the city council six months ago or before the public hearing on the claims of the dock company this ac - taken by many of those opposing the dock grab to mean there was some sort of unofficial approval given to the plan b 1 i links in great dock scheme july 19,1907â€”chicago lighter age company incorporated by attorney milton j foreman with 50,000 capital july 1908 ordinance passed by city council giving the company riparian rights to ten city streets m heart of factory â€¢ and lumbering districts feb 26 1909â€”united states war department grants secret permit to Chicago dock & canal co of which james a pugh was one of the promot ers to build and operate three piers at mouth of Chicago river march 24,1909â€”chicago light erage company dissolved after transferring its dock conces sions to pfl&h terminal and warehouse company estimated value of the ri parian rights 1,000,000 compensation paid by com pany annually 491.48 contfnued on 2d page 2d column h weather forecast ft t^k Chicago and vicinity partiy j a Â£ cloudy thursday and friday not l j a much change m temperature ; moder !Â£? are you going to give yd\ir help vacations ? if so you wjll doubtless need some temporary help the examiner employ ment exchange furnishes high-grade help both for temporary and permanent positions to reliable con cerns if m need of a ste nographer 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